{"id":3893,"date":"2012-09-30T08:27:17","date_gmt":"2012-09-30T12:27:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=3893"},"modified":"2012-09-30T08:27:17","modified_gmt":"2012-09-30T12:27:17","slug":"islam-and-voltaire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=3893","title":{"rendered":"Islam and Voltaire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/voltallah-small.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3894\" title=\"voltallah-small\" src=\"http:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/voltallah-small-300x162.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"162\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/voltallah-small-300x162.png 300w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/voltallah-small.png 444w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>There is, apparently, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.nationalpost.com\/2012\/09\/29\/muslim-leaders-say-call-for-global-ban-on-anti-islam-hate-speech-is-not-attack-on-free-speech\/\">a call<\/a> for a world-wide ban on anti-Islam &#8220;hate speech&#8221;: essentially, any speech that criticizes Islam or its prophet.<\/p>\n<p>My immediate reaction was a flat out Cold War Soviet-style &#8220;Nyet&#8221;. Or simply to tell them to bugger off. Seriously bugger off.<\/p>\n<p>But it was a friend of mine whose views on Islam are generally far less restrained who offered the most eloquent way to respond to these calls. It was a quotation supposedly from Voltaire:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.&#8221;<\/p>\n<fb:like href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=3893' send='false' layout='button_count' show_faces='true' width='450' height='65' action='like' colorscheme='light' font='lucida grande'><\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is, apparently, a call for a world-wide ban on anti-Islam &#8220;hate speech&#8221;: essentially, any speech that criticizes Islam or its prophet. My immediate reaction was a flat out Cold War Soviet-style &#8220;Nyet&#8221;. Or simply to tell them to bugger off. Seriously bugger off. But it was a friend of mine whose views on Islam <a href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=3893' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,5,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-politics","category-religion","category-40-id","category-5-id","category-38-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3893"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3896,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3893\/revisions\/3896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}